Friday, July 20, 2007

Life according to Flickr


Time, space, travel, experience - the stuff of Dejavu and parallel universes. This link shows us that no one person has the perfect perspective, but when the pool of human knowledge and experience comes together, life is infinitely richer.

The best way to explain it is to see the demo for yourself. It is truly amazing.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

As I understand it, this Photosynth technology hyperlinks all the public images on the web automatically. You don't need to tag your photos. Imagine googling any given image, say, "New York", and have the whole city come to life on your computer, in real time and through the real eyes of the collective community.

Probably the most exciting techno thing I have seen this decade. And we can all contribute it just by putting our holiday photos on Flickr!